Class, Degradation, and Hindley's Cruelty

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
After old Earnshaw's death, Hindley reduces Heathcliff to a farm laborer; class wounds and social humiliation drive the novel's central trauma.
Chapter 6

Catherine and Heathcliff spy on Thrushcross Grange; the Lintons take Catherine in but cast out Heathcliff as a 'gypsy.'

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Chapter 7

Catherine returns transformed into a lady; Heathcliff feels his degradation acutely. 'I wish I had light hair and a fair skin.'

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